I've decided to take part in a
Fun-A-Day project, which is all about creating something every day for the whole month of March. That decision was made someday in April, and then I looked at the calendar and realized that it is almost middle of March. It's not even funny how fast time flies. It seems like only yesterday I had this grand idea to find 30 different normal girls and take their portraits with the whole makeover/glamour idea. And now I understand that it is not possible to achieve when you have two jobs, and only 15 days left. Unless I quit my jobs :) That's an interesting idea... Anyway, I've changed the concept. I am still doing 30 different photos, portraits of... me, AKA self-portraits.
I chose a poem to illustrate with my photos. It's called A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Ellan Poe.
A Dream Within a Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
I absolutely loved this poem . It's dark, meaningful and beautiful. It represents how I feel about life... Life is passing by so fast and every day that past seems like another dream once it is gone.
Here is just a quick draft to my series of photos: